MediaWiki Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Vulnerability - CVE-2021-41799 - Vulnerability Database

MediaWiki Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Vulnerability - CVE-2021-41799

High
Reference: CVE-2021-41799
Title: MediaWiki Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Vulnerability
Overview:

MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows a denial of service (resource consumption because of lengthy query processing time). ApiQueryBacklinks (actionqueryamplistbacklinks) can cause a full table scan.